Hardik Pandya again at No. 1 in T20I Allrounder ICC Rankings


India allrounder Hardik Pandya is back on top of the T20I allrounders list in the ICC rankings, while Tilak Varma has broken into the main 10 among players interestingly. Hardik dislodged Britain's Liam Livingstone at the top and furthermore surpassed Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee after he got two wickets and scored 18, 39 not out and 2 in that frame of mind against South Africa. His top exhibition was his spell of 1 for 8 that remembered a lady for three overs in the fourth T20I in Johannesburg. The last time Hardik rose to the highest point of the allrounders list was only a couple of months prior, after India won the T20 World Cup in June likewise by beating South Africa. Tilak, the Player of the Series in the new bilaterals, shot up 69 spots among the hitters after his back to back and unbeaten hundreds of years that followed scores of 20 and 33 in the initial two T20Is. He is currently positioned third, after Travis Head and Phil Salt, and firmly followed by his chief Suryakumar Yadav. Sanju Samson, the other hitter with two hundreds in the series, went up 17 spots to 22nd, as he likewise packed away two ducks between the two centuries. Among bowlers, left-arm speedy Arshdeep Singh moved to 10th in the wake of acquiring three spots with the assistance of eight wickets against South Africa. Arshdeep was the top-wicket taker in the series among quick bowlers and packed away three-fors in the last two games. Adam Zampa, who got six wickets against Pakistan, was among the greatest gainers among the bowlers, arriving at third spot subsequent to rising five spots, simply behind Adil Rashid and Wanindu Hasaranga. His colleague Nathan Ellis shot up a huge 15 spots to arrive at eleventh position, after he completed the three T20Is against Pakistan with four wickets, remembering figures of 3 for 9 for the initial match that was shortened by downpour. For South Africa, Tristan Stubbs climbed three spots to move to 23rd while Heinrich Klaasen bounced six places yet stayed out of top 50, at 59th. After the 1-1 T20I series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, Kusal Mendis rose to joint twelfth spot subsequent to going up three spots. After they won the ODIs 2-0, Maheesh Theekshana went up six spots to be set 6th, that pushed Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj one spot down each, to seventh and eighth individually.